Lucid4 Release Notes
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4.0.46 20241202
Builder
- Fixed bug with deploying filtered item lists to the player.
- Fixed bug with NL template editor not clearing state on exit.
- Improved media list import in pathway keys and partial name matching.
- Various bug fixes and performance related enhancements.
Player
- Rewrite of auto-pruning and additional prune-modes: removed, disabled.
- Tidied up css includes and fixed missing font references.
- Various bug fixes and performance related enhancements.
4.0.42 20240315
Builder
- Improved thumb-nailing of transparent PNG files
- Improved find/replace functionality
- Fixed encoding issue on key deploy
- Fixed deploy issue not updating other content
- Various bug fixes and performance related enhancements.
Player
- Fixed bug with scoping under ranked sorting mode
- Fixed image viewer not showing thumbnails of images
- Added missing translation strings
- Fixed wrapping of long item names on player startup
- Fixed bug with shortcut features
- Fixed display of html encoded names in drop downs
Other(s)
- Added uninstaller to setup package
4.0.37 20230731
- Builder: Improvements to CSV export and imports.
- Builder: Various bug fixes and performance related enhancements.
4.0.35 20230531
- Builder: Various bug fixes relating to character encodings
- Builder: Improved image downloading for key imports with http(s) image references
4.0.33 20230503
- Builder: Improved CSV export and import when keys are not fully populated.
- Builder: Various minor fixes to interface or strings
- Player: Fixed sorting of remaining entities by match value when rare scores are used.
4.0.32 20230317
- Builder: Fixed issue with code signing for macOS
- Player: Fixed bug auto expanding top level features
4.0.31 20230310
- Builder: Fixed bug with csv key imports and not importing scoping scores
- Player: Improved differences output for numeric features
- Player: Changed auto prune behaviour to run without needing to be activated first
- Player: Changed prune behaviour to not remove a feature when a single state is left after prune
4.0.30 20230303
- Player: Fixed bug with single state selections in gallery mode
- Player: Fixed prune bug with single state selections in gallery mode
- Player: Improved auto pruning and unpruning functionality
4.0.29 20230209
- Fixed bug not correctly importing measurement units from lif files
- Fixed character encoding bug in the pathway key editor
- Various other minor bugfixes
4.0.28 20221123
- Key reporter enhancements and bug fixes.
- Fixed items being set as needing revision not being output to the player
- Improvements to multi-cell scoring in spreadsheet scoring and other numeric scoring improvements
- Added more verbose warnings when trying to open a key with broken folder structures
- Improved importing flow when importing pathway keys
- Various other minor bugfixes
4.0.27 20220608
- Builder: fixed bug saving natural language score text.
4.0.26 20220523
- Builder: fixed media list import bugs.
- Player: improvements to user interface.
4.0.25 20220503
- Builder: fixed media list import bugs, improved find and replace functionality.
- Player: added ability to switch between filtered mode and ranked mode.
4.0.24 20220401
- Builder: fixed bug creating thumbnails in subfolders, bug in key reporter and various minor bugfixes.
- Player: preserve manually discarded entities on subset changes, and numeric input bugfixes.
4.0.23 20220122
- improvements to natural language templates and fixed bug in preview output
- respect image orientation metadata when generating image thumbnails
- added support for html tags in media captions
- other minor bugfixes
4.0.22 20220112
- Improved import support of Nexus XML files
- Other minor bugfixes
4.0.21 20211118
- Changes to theming and improvements to spreadsheet scoring display
- Improved import support of Nexus XML files
- Fixed problem resolving relative file references in media import
- Other minor bugfixes
4.0.20 20211104
- Improved importing of pathway keys from text files
- Improved import support of Nexus XML files
- Other minor bugfixes
4.0.19 20210930
- Added item reordering in trees using them items property panel
- Fixed bug where delete disabled after deleting items
- Other minor bugfixes and improvements
4.0.19 20210930
- Added item reordering in trees using them items property panel
- Fixed bug where delete disabled after deleting items
- Other minor bugfixes and improvements
4.0.18 20210923
- Fixed numeric input bug when adding a new row
- Other minor enhancements
4.0.17 20210920
- Theme updates and minor bugfixes
4.0.16 20210917
- Added ability to score an entity for multiple leads in pathway keys
- Fixed bug preventing closing numeric score dialog after an input error
4.0.14 20210913
- Improvements to the Player for pathway keys which use subsets
- Fixed bug with manual discard of entities in the Player
- Several minor Builder bugfixes
4.0.13 20210820
- Fixed problem accessing https urls on macos
- Updated natural language transform templates
4.0.12 20210816
- Added language resources for the player home page
- Minor bugfixes and improvements.
4.0.11 20210804
- Added missing pathway mode player translations
- Fixed the slow opening and editing of larger keys
- Fixed the encoding of the home page on key deployment
4.0.10 20210728
- Added support for pathway keys
4.0.6 20210115
- Added support for numerics and text scores to specimen scoring
- Added support for numeric score merging to the player output
- Added support for numeric and text merging from specimens to natural language output
- Fixed bug on merging some numeric scores
4.0.5 20201221
- Fixed bug with media ordering not being preserved across saves
- Fixed bug with undo/redo losing some child node scores
- Fixed other minor interface bugs and missing language resources
4.0.4 20201119
- Fixed occasional bug related to file locking when saving to network drives
4.0.3 20201109
- Fixed bug with csv import creating states as features
- Improved handling of character encoding in file imports
4.0.2 20201102
- Multiple improvements to multi-cell scoring under spreadsheet scoring, check the help for more information
- Fixed bug when closing the numeric scoring dialog on first run
4.0.1 20201023
- Fixed bug in the import of LIF3 keys from older versions of Lucid.
- Fixed bug in the import of LIF3 keys which contained duplicate items or item ids.
- Fixed bug where file extension filters in file chooser dialogs were sometimes case sensitive, e.g. attaching media files.
- Fixed bug relating to the undo/redo of add parent item operations, where the child items were sometimes lost in the process.
- Fixed bug preventing keys from being opened via file association on Windows.
- Fixed the macOS installer to be runnable using the platform 1.8 JRE launcher, Lucid still requires minimum of Java 11.